such an educated fellow!

There's a classicist I know on Facebook who would laugh like hell at the drawing and the description.

May I have your permission to post this in my FB feed, to guy that classicist? If so, what attribution should I use?

Yeah sure thing! You can just attribute it to '@discopawbs on twitter' if you want! :)

Thank you!

I'm literally reading Epictetus' Discourses rn

You two could exchange study notes!

Sitting in a wing chain in the parlor, light jazz on the Hi-Fi, a cup of tea and some biscuits on an oak martini table beside him, briefly pondering what Cicero would have thought of modern times before returning to the past.

Probably would go something like this tweet I imagine

For the record, the classicist that I was trying to guy with this got a good laugh from it. Mission accomplished. (His comment: "Q: What do you call a Greek verb whose every form is 100% predictable? A: Irregular.")

Hahahaha that's brilliant!

The Enchiridion of Epictetus is an Arrian manifesto!


_{(* psst! The actual tome is nowhere near that large *)}

Listen, if your edition doesn't have three books' worth of footnotes and back matter, + a preface, introduction, and the entire original text on the verso, is it really even an edition?

(* snerk! *) You sound like my Sophomore year English instructor. He wrote his PhD dissertation on William Blake, and I quickly learned that footnotes and background were the way to an 'A' (along with copious references to Blake).

I also had his wife for two semesters of Shakespeare (Tragedies and Comedies). The second class of the first semester I saw her eject a student for mentioning Blake in a discussion. No friction in that home!

Dinner with them sounds like it'd be a blast lmao

When I became disenchanted with psychology I considered majoring in English, which would likely have led to one of them being my advisor. I withdrew at the end of my sophomore year to change schools to study computers, but the new school... lost my application.